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That post has absolutely no meaning. The union is there to represent its members. The members (i.e. staff) are working under trying conditions, being bullied and insulted by management, and abused by (a small number of) customers. And your answer is to blame them and sack the lot - when...

So 15 days of strikes against 500+ consecutive days of Southern incompetence and failure. And you blame the unions...? Outstanding analysis. :facepalm:

You need to work on this sarcasm. It's coming across as a bit too genuine.

Paul Barber has criticised the 'sheer arrogance' of the chief executive and management of Southern Rail for never communicating with the Albion 'one of, or maybe the biggest single customer with Southern'. They have tried getting explanations from SASTA, but they won't say anything to them...

'Minimal' costs more than 'nothing'. So they won't cough up. I suspect there is no CCTV footage.

Incidentally, not only are SASTA not employing enough drivers, guards, ticket office staff and station personnel, it also seems they're not employing enough security, and have little interest in helping the police solve theft crimes on the trains...

You can't strike if your company isn't affected. Or rather, you can be sacked if you strike on behalf of employees of a different company (otherwise known as 'Sympathy Strikes' or 'Secondary Strikes'). For instance, a TfL employee who's also an RMT member can't go on strike on behalf of Southern...

Train drivers and conductors are on a fairly decent wage already - better than most. This isn't, nor has ever been, about pay. You might think it is - and good for you if you'd have taken the bribe - for an attempt at a bribe is what this is. But not everyone thinks like that, especially as it...

I don't think you've been paying attention to this at all. Southern aren't recruiting any new people. This is the principle reason why they're cancelling so many trains; very little to do with the industrial action.

Quite right. Southern should have had their contract terminated ages ago. Let them go and play with the traffic in downtown Damascus instead.

And therein lies the issue. SASTA - who run those stations - have no intention of doing so.

They're not. The RSSB is the TOC-owned (so not independent) safety board to which the RMT has referred when talking about passenger safety. Unsurprisingly, the TOCs haven't publicly mentioned the RSSB's findings - about the possibility of some drivers leaving their cabs to check down certain...

To re-iterate, the RMT is prepared to accept DOO on London-Brighton services. It's the East Coast (Brighton to Eastbourne / Hastings) and West Coast (Brighton to Worthing / Chichester / Portsmouth) services which the RMT is most concerned about. SASTA intends to put DOO in across the entire...

Their argument is actually crystal clear and extremely valid - but lost in the white noise the the government and media wish to portray about them. Unbelievably, some passengers / customers are tying the government's / GTR's behaviour with the dispute. They are, by and large, separate issues -...

1. On what grounds? 2. Which 10%? 3. A 10% reduction in staff is only going to cause further problems for passengers, as even more trains will be cancelled. 4. The other 90% would have a much more justified reason to strike than now. 5. Sacking some employees would only further dismatle...

I said it earlier in the thread - how feasible it is I don't know... Have all the staff turn up for work, but have the barriers open at all SASTA-operated stations to allow passengers through without tickets being checked. That way, revenue is affected, but there should be a full (as full as...

Agreed. RMT could win the public's hearts and minds very easily if they adopted a more imaginative approach to industrial action - one which doesn't adversely affect the people who are caught in the crossfire. i.e. the passengers.

Textbook meltdown. :kiss:

Silly logic. Customers pay the company, who pay the staff. The staff then have the individual choice of joining a union. What would you have - staff not get paid at all in case they join a union? By the same logic, your 'customers' / 'clients' (depending on what you do for a living) are paying...

I didn't. And they're not vacancies. It's the number of new jobs required to fill the roles, which SASTA are not now going to fill.